Detectives canvassed the Marlton neighborhood Monday night where the girl was attacked, searching for any clues that could lead them to the sexual predator.

Police say the man, who is described to be bald with a goatee-style beard, approached the girl and sexually assaulted her in a wooded area in the 8800 block of Heathermore Boulevard before fleeing.

Police say the girl was riding her scooter with friends. Again and again, they circled a building until at about 3 p.m., when the friends stopped for a break and the 7-year-old kept on playing alone. That's when the man appeared from the woods.

The man “threatened her at gunpoint to come with him the child was with the suspect in the woods where he sexually assaulted her,” Prince George’s County Police Spokeswoman Julie Parker says.

“She’s distraught. She just wants to be a kid again,” the girl's mother says.

She says her daughter is afraid to play outside and wants to leave and forget what happened.

"She asks me 'Can we go on vacation?'"

Now the community is scared and seething. Prince George’s County police went door-to-door with flyers hoping to land leads Monday night.